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MidiSmith
Copyright 1994
Computer Systems & Solutions
MidiSmith is a Midi (*.mid) file player program that incorporates editing
and sequencing capabilities.
Sequences of files may be saved to be loaded and re-played. Files
(either individual or in a sequence) may be edited and then saved.
Editing is able to modify the playback Tempo, Transposition (pitch) and
playback Volume and additionally can display and modify the instrumentations
of the Midi tracks. Balance between instruments may be adjusted through
individual channel volumes within each track and also each channel may be
transposed. General Midi (GM) Instrument (voice) names can be selected
and the GM defined Base and Extended level sequencer modes can be selected.
The Midi Mapper is used by default, bu any available Midi Driver may be
selected for playback.
A Text Event window is provided to view copyrights, instrument names as
defined, lyrics, cue points and markers as Midi files are playing. The
Debug facility displays other significant events internal to Midi files
in this window.
Does this sound complex? Of course!
But you can start out just playing Midi files and saving your favorite songs in
the order you want them. Everything else can be changed once you feel
adventurous.
Note: There are some limitations:
Due to the amount of processing and interaction with you, MidiSmith plays
in the Foreground. This means that moving windows around, re-calculating
a spreadsheet or just letting a screen-saver get in control of Windows
causes playback to be delayed. This will be corrected in version 2.
Midi output devices are not saved and restored with the "Save" function.
Instrument Setup on a complex keyboard may be tricky. Only single
instrument selections are processed.
SysEx events are not sent to anybody!!!
Complete path names to files selected are saved in the MidiSmith Sequence
files. This means that if you re-organise your directory structure or
worse, move your files to another disk or system, they will not be found.
Fortunatly the .MSQ files are stored in ASCII and the file path name can
be changed with a standard text editor. Note that these files look very
much like Windows .INI files, but they are not! Be careful with line
spacing when in these files.
Support Shareware! Register and in addition to a registered copy of
MidiSmith, you will receive Version 2 when available which will support
background playing and many additional features. Any suggestions which
you may wish to provide will be appreciated and evaluated for future
inclusion. A registration form may be obtained through Windows Help
by printing the Registration Form topic (access the topic Shareware
Registration first.
If you are a member of Compuserve, you may register through the Shareware
Registration Database service. GO SWREG and request product registration
number 2858.
You may contact me (Richard Ellis) via Compuserve Mail (72072,371), the
Midi/Music Forum (GO MIDIFORUM) or through the mailing address provided
in the registration information in Help.